The Syrian Electronic Army claims to have hacked the US President’s social media accounts on 28th October. They had actually gotten admin access to his Twitter and Facebook accounts where they made certain alterations with the links in the tweets and posts to lead the various followers and friends to a 24 minute video that showed “Syria facing terrorism.”
The website BarackObama.com was primarily used by the President during the elections of 2008 and 2011, the SEA group hacked the accounts via the same website. Following are the images if the tweets with altered links.
The group has been famous for hacking social media accounts of renowned personalities, whom they consider to be the opponents of the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad .Apparently, the SEA hacked one of the administrator’s email id, using which they gained the admin rights and made the changes.
As of now all the links have been fixed and additional security layer has been added to avoid such incidents in the future.
via SocialAppsHQ Blog http://www.socialappshq.com/blog/2013/10/29/obamas-social-media-accounts-hacked/
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